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to a New, Never Before Seen

School Y

I am so grateful, glad, and thankful to have each

and everyone of you in my class. I have some fun
and exciting things in store for us this year. It is
my hope that I will learn from all of you as much
as you will learn from me.
We will incorporate adaptive learning through
technology, participate in digital classrooms with
other schools around the world, dive into STEM
fields through project-based learning, among so
much more. You and your parents will be able to
keep track of your grades, assignments, email the
teacher and your classmates, receive the latest

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to a New, Never Before Seen

School Y

Before we dive into this years technical assignments, there are some technology
terms you need to know.
This PowerPoint will remain in the resource folder of your SIS account as a
reference.

A-B
Adaptive Learning: Educational

Blended Learning: A teaching

process where the teaching

methods and materials adapt to
each students pace and level.

practice that combines, or blends,

classroom and online learning.

BLOG: Public accessible personal journal

for an individual; typical reflects the
personality of the author.

Assistive Technology: Any

piece of technology, hardware
or software, that helps a person
with disabilities perform
everyday tasks that might
and
otherwise Augmentative
be difficult or
impossible.
Alternative

Communication (AAC): any

communicative method that
helps individual with speech and
language impairment to
communicate.

Bluetooth: Short range radio technology

aimed at simplifying communication among
internal devices and between devices.

Broadband: data transmission in

which a single medium can carry serval
channels at once.

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Cloud: term used to
represent the
concept of
distributed
computing; set of
Cloud
Computing:
network
computers
hardware
that computer
allow for shared
and software that
devices.
powers the cloud;
servers, data,
storage,
application.
Content
: information

Cookie: message given to a web server to a web

browser that stores the message in a text file.
Message is sent back to the server each time the
browser requests a page from the server; intended
to create customize web pages; can be disabled.

Digital Classroom: mostly or entirely

relies on digital electronic devices and
software instead of paper or pens.

captured digitally and

imparted to learners.

Codec (short for

compressor/decompr
essor): any technology
for compressing or
decompressing data.

Digital Editing: editing a portion of a movie by

digitizing one or more frames and altering it
electronically or combining them with other
digitalized images.

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e-Learning: wide set of
applications-web based
learning, computer based
learning, virtual classroom,
digital collaboration.

Flipped Classroom: form of blended

learning; practice of student watching a
lecture material video at home, then
practicing their learning in an interactive
environment in the classroom.

Encoding: process of
compressing a media file for a
specific purpose.

Firewall: system designed to prevent

unauthorized access to or from a private
network; hardware or software used to prevent
unauthorized interest users from accessing
private networks

GB: over 1 billion bytes

GIF (Graphics
Interchange Format):
also Jiff; format commonly
used for images on web;
images composed of
relatively few colors.

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HTML (Hypertext Markup
Language): programming language
used to create documents for
displaying on the web

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer

Protocol): set of rules and standards
that govern how information is
transmitted on the world wide web.

Hypertext: A special type of

database system, objects can be
creatively linked to each other.

IM (Instant Messaging):

communication service that enable

you to create a kind of private chat
room with others; communicate in
real time over the internet.

Internet: International
network first used to
connect education and
research networks that was
begun by the USA
government; provides
communicative and
application
service.
IP Address
(Internet

Protocol Address):
assigning all connected
devices a unique identifier.

ISP: Internet service

provider; hosting company
that provides access to
internet.

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JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group): image file format; high
quality and low file size.

KB (Kilobyte): 1,024
bytes

Link (hyperlink): signifying to a browser that data within a document will

automatically connected with other nested data or outside source.

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Pixel: Tiny dots that make up a
Network: Two or more computers
that are connected so users share
files and data.
Online: state in which a computer is
connected to another computer or
server via a network.

Open Educated Resources (OER):

Any online educational material that is
freely accessible and openly license for
public consumption.

PDF (Portable Document

Format): file software developed by
Adobe systems to enable users of any
hardware or software platform to view
documents exactly at they were

computer image; more pixels, better

resolution and quality.

Plug-in: a accessory program that

adds capabilities to the main program.

Project Based Learning: A

teaching method based on the ideas of
learning by doing; hands-on-real-world
activities that demonstrates concepts.

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Resolution: number of
pixels in a given space;
dots per inch (DPI)

STEM: fields of Science, Technology,

Engineering, and Mathematics curriculum;
aimed at producing a stronger, high tech
workforce.
STEAM: include A-Art

Server: computer or
device on a network that
manages network devices.

Streaming: Audio video files played as

they are being downloaded over the
internet instead of users waiting for entire
file to download.

SIS (Student Information

System): software that
manages student data.

Student Assessment: a item that can

be sued to measure a students competency
in a particular subject.

TIFF (Tagged Image File

Format): file format for

T-U-VW

storing bit mapped images on

personal computers; archiving
high quality version of a image
that intend to be reproduce in
print.

Trojan Horse: malicious

computer program that
appears legitimate but masks a
destructive file or application;
do not replicate themselves.

URI (Uniform Resource

Identifier): name and address
of information; identifying
applications used to access
resource, machine resource is

URL (Uniform Resource

Locator): Global address of
documents and other resources.

Virtual Classroom: online learning

space.

Viruses: destructive type of computer program

that disturbs the normal operation of a computer;
rewrite or delete information from storage devices.

Wireless: A technology that uses radio or

light waves to transmit and received data.

X-Y-Z
XML (eXtensible Markup Language): designed especially for
web documents; allows designers to create their own customized tags,
enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of
data between application and between organizations.

Zip: a popular data compression

format; have a .ZIP extension.
Zip Disk, Zip Drive, Zip file

Works
Cited
(2015). The Education Technology Dictionary. Retrieved
from EdShelf website: https://edshelf.com/educationtechnology-dictionary/
Ed Technology Glossary of Terms. Retrieved from Utah
Education Network website:
http://www.uen.org/core/edtech/glossary.shtml

SHAVONTA WILKERSON